In the most recent Pike River Update, AMSJ has learned that the PRRA team together with a range of industry experts are working in preparation to go beyond the 170-metre seal in the mine’s drift but, as the team acknowledged, the devil is in the detail and making sure that the re-entry is conducted without risks to the mine team remains paramount. The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, 46 kilometres (29 mi) northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island.A methane explosion occurred in the mine at approximately 3:44 pm (NZDT, UTC+13).At the time of the explosion 31 miners and contractors were present in the mine. The strategy for going beyond the seal needs to be finalised and put to WorkSafe. On 19 November 2010, 29 men perished in an underground explosion at the Pike River Mine.

1 NEWS 1,859 views. The Pike River Recovery Agency CEO gave Breakfast a progress an update four weeks into the re-entry. The 30-170 metre area in the Pike River Mine drift has undergone the forensic search by the Pike River Recovery Agency mining team with the support and oversight of police.

2:20. Chief operating officer Dinghy Pattinson said the area was traversed on a daily basis from when the New Zealand Mines Rescue built the 170 metre seal in 2011, until 2016 when the seal was shifted from 170m to 30m. Created in partnership with the families of those 29 men, the Department of Conservation and Ngāti Waewae, the Paparoa Track is a memorial to the men and a thank you to New Zealanders for their support of the Pike River … Pike River mine has a newly rebuilt seal at 170m deep, but there's not yet a final plan on what to do next. Emotional scenes at Pike River Mine as victims’ families allowed deep into mine’s drift - Duration: 2:20. Pike widow Anna Osborne and mine worker Scotty Campbell hug at the Pike River mine portal. The Pike River recovery team has been given the green light to go further into the mine's drift.